Journey With Jesus 360° Tour I: Woman Anoints Jesus' Feet

[Music] now in the first station of the cross in this journey with Jesus we have the moment where the woman anoints Jesus feet are you looking at it right now this happened six days before the Passover Jesus had come to Bethany a town near Jerusalem where Lazarus lived and Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead there his sisters Mary and Martha lived there with their brother and a dinner was given in Jesus honor now Martha served the meal while Lazarus was among those who were reclining at the table with him and then Mary took about a pint of pure nard that's a very very expensive perfume and in front of everybody at the dinner party she poured it on the feet of Jesus now this was quite a scandal because first you didn't waste that kind of perfume in cleaning people's feet cleaning the feet of your guests was a common occurrence in old times because they didn't have shoes they wore sandals and your feet would get dusty but Mary takes the most expensive perfume nard and she pours it on Jesus feet and then she shocks everyone by wiping his feet with her hair this is almost too intimate to watch and the Bible tells us that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume that Mary had put on Jesus feet now one of Jesus disciples Judas Iscariot you know who he is he later betrayed Jesus he objects by the way Judas was the treasurer of the disciples so he was always thinking about money and he says that Jesus why was this perfume sold why wasn't it sold and the money given to the poor it's easily worth a year's wages why is it being wasted on gee feat now Judas didn't say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and has a keeper of the money bag he used to help himself to what was put in it and he wasn't going to get any of the profit from perfume that was used to anoint Jesus you know what Jesus response was to Judas objection he says leave her alone leave her alone Jesus says it was intended that she should save this perfume for this day right before my burial this act is a prediction that Jesus is going to die because you would anoint the dead body with precious oils and perfumes and Jesus said this in John 12 it's in verses 1 to 8 if you want to read it he said you know you're always going to have the poor among you but you're not always going to have me among you like this in the flesh this is a very holy moment is the ultimate expression of sacrifice and love as Jesus is anointed before his burial in advance it's a prophetic move as you look at this package picture I want you to keep your eyes open the prelude me father what this woman did was so extravagant and yet it was so intimate an intimate act of worship almost too intimate to even watch it was then out of pure love father I want my love to be that extravagant and intimate for you may my worship flow freely each day in celebration of all that Jesus has done for me amen

Channel: Saddleback Church

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Length: 4min 15sec (255 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 03 2017